Dispensing and displaying carton



a. H, mz GERALD.

DISPENSING AND DISPLAYING CA RTON.

" APFLICATION men JUNE 23, was.

Patented M5 17, 1921.

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RAY H. iFI'lZ GERALD, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

DISPENSING AND DISPLAYING cnn'roN.

T 0 all 7.0 ham it may 0mm Be it known that I, RAY H. Frrz GERALD,

I a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Pittsburgh, in thecounty of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have in.- vented certainnew and'useful Improvements in Dispensing and Displaying Cartons; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled-in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in dispensing and display cartonsand more particularly to such as are made of paper or card board,oneobject of the invention being to provide a carton from which cylindricalarticles can be readily dispensed, and to so construct the device as toprovide a tray in front of the discharge opening, which shall be formedintegral with the stock from which the body of the carton is made.

With this and other objects in view, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafterset forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings; Figure 1 is a view showing the blank fromwhich the body of the carton and the tray are made;

Fig. 2 is a view of the blank from which the inclined bottom member ismade; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the inclined bottom member, andFig. 4 is a perspective View of the assembled device.

The body of the carton 1 is made rectangular in form and comprises frontand back members 2, 3 and side members 4, 5 integral therewith. Thesidemembers are provided at their upper ends with flaps 6 and the backmember 3 is made at its upper end with a flap 7 provided with a gluingflange 8,the flaps 6 and 7 being bent to form the top of the carton. Aflap 9 may be provided at the upper end of the front 2 and utilized foradvertising purposes. Flaps 10, 10 are provided at the lower ends of thesides 4, 5, and cooperate with bottom member 11 at the lower end of theback 3 to form the bottom of the carton. The bottom member 11 is madewith an extension 12 from which a tray 13 is formed to receive articlesfrom the carton, through a discharge opening 14.

The portion 15 of the extension 12 forms the front wall 19 of the'tray,-the end portion 20 being bent so as to be disposed parallel :3

a hole 21 (Fig. 1) to form a notch 22 in the Specification of LettersPatent. Patented May 17, 1921, Application filedJune 2a, 1919. SerialIva/306,197. i

front wall of the tray as shown in Fig. 3. "I

The ends 23, 23 of the tray are cut from the stock of the. carton at thelower end of the front 2 and areintegral with the sides 4, 5. Thetraysends 23 are made with tabs 24 which enter between the folds of thefront v wall 19 of the tray.

The end members 23, 23 are provided with tongues 27 which overlie thebottom of the;

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tray and may project under the end tion or flange 20 of the frontv wall19. The. tongues 27 are provided with other tongues 27 27*, which may beinserted, with the tabs of the tray.

Located within the lower portion of the carton, is an inclined bottommember 25 which is so constructed and placed in the carton as to providea platform 26 inclining downwardly and forwardly from the rear member 3of the carton to the front thereof, its front edge terminating at thebottom of the discharge opening 14. The bottom .24 between the folds ofthe front wall 19 member 25 is provided with an upright 1 member 26which depends from the upper edge of the inclined platform 26 and liesagainst the back member 3 of the carton. From the lower edge of theupright member 26 a base member 28 extends forwardly and rests upon thebottom of the carton. The base member 28 terminates rearwardly of thefront of the carton and is made with an upturned flange 29 which servesas a brace for the intermediate portion of the inclined platform '26.The upturned flange 29 is provided-with a plurality of upstandingtongues 30 (which may be located at the :end portions of said flange)and these tongues extend through notches 31 made in the side edgeportions of the platform and project upwardly above the upper face ofthe latter at points rearwardly of the front lower edge of said inclinedplatform.

The inclined platform, of the bottom member will tend to cause thecylindrical articles within the carton to move forwardly,

but the upstanding tongues will act as baffles to hold back the majorbulk of the articles, permitting only the front vertical tier ofarticles to be disposed in a vertical plane in front of that of saidtongue. When an article passes through the discharge opening 14; andenters'the tray, the next article in the front tier will drop intoposition and an article will move from the top of the next tier to thetop of the front tier of articles, and this will continue, as articlespass through the discharge opening, until only two articles remain onthe bottom inclined platform. These last two articles will be held backby the tongues 30, and the emerchant may cause them to pass over saidtongues by jarring or shaking the carton. When an article is in thetray, it will hold back the article in line with the discharge opening.

Various changes might be made in the details of construction of myinvention without departing from the spirit or limiting its scope andhence I do not wish to restrict myself to the precise details herein setforth.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Lettray in front of said carton, the'parts of said tray beingformed from the same blank from which the body of the carton is formed,

and a separate bottom member within the carton and comprising aninclined platform extending from the back of the carton to the bottom ofsaid discharge opening and tongues projecting upwardly. from theupperface of said inclined platform rearwardly of the discharge opening.

2. A blank for a carton comprising front, back, side, and bottommembers, portion of the front member cutaway forming a disforming theends of the tray having tabs to enter between the folds of the front ofthe tray, and the portions forming the ends of the tray having tonguesto overlie the bottom of the tray and said tongues having other tonguesto enter between the folds of the front of the tray.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses. V

RAY H. FITZ GERALD.

Witnesses:

G. F. DOWNING,

W. S. Honor.

